Whickham, mine shafts

HER Number:
11683

District:
Gateshead

Site Name:
Whickham, mine shafts

Place:
Whickham

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Industrial

Site Type: Broad:
Mine Drainage and Ventilation Site

Site Type: Specific:
Mine Shaft

General Period:
Post Medieval

Specific Period:

Form of Evidence:
Levelled Earthwork

Description:
Shafts, probably of Post Medieval date, seen on air photographs. Look like bell pits. They run down the hillside, over a distance of 300m east to west and 350m south-west to north-east, towards a dismantled railway. Now levelled.

Easting:
2234

Northing:
6026

Grid Reference:
NZ22346026

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
English Heritage Hadrian's Wall WHS Mapping Project, 2008, 1432164; Aerial Photograph RAF 58/B/35 5135 16-MAY-1948; TWM, 2012, Proposed Dunston Hill, Urban Extension, Dunston, Gateshead - Archaeological Assessment